Saturday, April 13, 2002On the News: Crowd counts are notoriously unreliable. Remember the flap over the Million Man and Million Woman Marches? It's repeated daily, like this:In today's edition, the NY Times claims that "Thousands in New York Rally for Palestinians"--in fact, that's the title of the story. It notes "a few thousand protestors" in the text itself. The AP, however, reports "more than 500" protestors and notes "hundreds of chanting pro-Palestinian demonstrators" in a second mention. The Post puts the crowd at "About 1,000". The Daily News contains no mention of the protest at all (being fair, it did not run a full article on an earlier pro-Israel protest). LI Newsday agrees with the Post: "About 1,000". USA Today: yeah, right. So, who's off by an order of magnitude, the Times or everyone else? Finally, the Washington Post runs a full story (with versions picked up by several wires, as well) titled "Thousands expected for pro-Israeli rally Monday [in D.C.]" and predicts "tens of thousands" of participants (hedging their bets with a weak 'are expected'). The Times makes no mention of this that I could find. It was, however, picked up by the Manchester Union-Leader. Go figure. Truly finally: Cornell West resigns from Harvard. How long will Princeton placate a professor who refuses to publish (do rap albums count?) or teach? Posted by Andrew Grossman at 3:07 PM Comments Post a Comment (we enforce our comments policy) |
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